How we use AI

The short version

Articles are drafted with the help of AI writing tools, working from a plan that sets out what each page must answer and which rules and sums it may use. A person then reviews the draft, and the name at the top of each page, in the line that reads "AI-assisted, reviewed by", is the person who did that review. The reviewers are Beth Ruelos, Ryza Glorioso and John James.

That line credits a review; it doesn't claim the reviewer wrote the article. The same reasoning explains why there are no writers' bylines. A name at the top of a page is a claim about who wrote it, and none of these articles were written by one person from their own experience. The site itself is the author, and in the structured data search engines read, the publication is listed as the author and the reviewer as the editor.

What the tools do

They produce first drafts: structure, explanations, worked examples built on hypothetical numbers, and the frequently asked questions at the foot of some pages. Every draft is then put through automated checks before review. Those checks reject drafts that break the site's writing rules, such as long runs of same-length sentences or claims written in the first person. They also flag any page whose figures, links or headings change between versions, so a number can't shift during an edit without anyone noticing.

Where the numbers come from

Every number on this site is one of two kinds. The first is a rule you can look up, such as the settlement cycle, the wash sale window or a margin requirement, stated with the body that sets it: the SEC, FINRA or the IRS. The second is arithmetic on a hypothetical trade, worked on the page so you can check it and redo it with your own figures.

AI tools will write a convincing statistic with nothing behind it, so the site does not publish statistics it cannot source: no success rates for patterns, no share of traders who lose, no returns for a method. Where a point would need one, it's made in words, without a figure.

What AI is never used for

• Stock picks, signals, forecasts or price targets. The site publishes none of these, by any method.
• Personal financial, tax or legal advice. Read the risk disclaimer.
• Invented quotes, sources, credentials, track records or personal stories presented as someone's experience.
• Imitating a real person's writing or presenting a fictional writer as real.

Who is accountable

The publication is. A reviewer checks a page before it goes live, but a mistake that gets through is the site's mistake to fix, and it will be fixed. The editorial policy explains how pages are planned, checked and corrected, and the contact page is where to report something wrong. Name the page and the sentence or figure; the more exact the report, the faster it gets corrected.